Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Fried, Stephen

Appetite for America how visionary businessman Fred Harvey built a railroad hospitality empire that civilized the Wild West Stephen Fried - New York Bantam Books, c2010. - xix, 518 p. ill., maps ; 24 cm.

The legendary life and entrepreneurial vision of Fred Harvey helped shape American culture and history of three generations--from the 1880's all the way through World War II--and still influence our lives today. Stephen Fried re-creates the life of this unlikely American hero, the founding father of the nation's service industry, whose remarkable family business civilized the West and introduced America to Americans

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Harvey, Fred


Fred Harvey (Firm)


Restaurateurs--United States
Cookery, American.
Railroads--History.--West (U.S.)

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